Cash on AJC Campaign Pledges Needed to Hold Israel's Doors Open Allied Jewish Campaign col- lections for 1950 are keeping pace with those of 1949, but Is- rael's need for cash to main- tain immigration is so urgent that just keeping pace is not good enough, Samuel H. Rub- iner, president of the Jewish Welf a r e Federation, reported this week. Of the $1,608,000 collected to date on 1950 pledges, nearly . all already has been sent to the United Jewish Appeal, major beneficiary of the Al- lied Jewish Campaign. Rub- iner pointed out that the only way Detroit can help the UJA prevent bankruptcy of Israel's immigration is if every one speeds payment on his pledge — either all or part of it—now, Cash on campaign pledges also is needed to meet commit- ments to the network of 55 other Federation services. Ap- proximately $575,000 will be pro- vided for 18 local agencies in addition to $300,000 required for the resettlement of new Ameri- cans in Detroit. Allocations to local and na- t i o n a l campaign beneficiaries are made on the recommenda- tions of the three budgeting and planning divisions of the Fed- eration — health and welfare, educational and cultural, and community relations. The Fed-. eration's executive committee determines the specific alloca- tion of campaign funds to over- seas beneficiaries on the basis of the formula set up at the pre -.campaign budgeting con- ference. All allocations must be approved by the board of gover- nors. Budgeting sessions will re- sume in the fall. Eddie Cantor, national UJA campaign chairman, wired Samuel H. Rubiner, president of the Jewish Welfare Federa- tion, that money to finance Israel's immigration will be totally exhausted in the next few weeks, if American Jews fail to provide funds at once. "I know what hardships and burdens every Jew there ac- cepts with the immigration of every additional Jew," the mes- sage states. "But they feel that the whole conception of the Jewish State is a mockery if a Jew who needs its safety is to be barred now. In July Israel took in over 18,000 Jews. In August there will be the same number. But no matter how many sacrifices Israel makes, it cannot produce dollars to pay for that kind of immigration. If we American Jews should be guilty of shutting the doors of Israel, we would never be ' able to face the world as proud peo- ple again." Hadassah Members Hear of Plight Of Agency's Youth Rescue Program NEW YORK, (JTA) — Hadas- sah raised $9,000,000 during the past 10-and-a-half months for its projects in Israel and the United States, and gained 10,- 000 members during the same period, it was reported at the Hadassah convention here. The 2,000 delegates heard a report by Moshe Kol, chairman of the Youth Immigration De- partment of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, on the problems which the Agency now faces. "At this very moment Youth Aliyah is racing against time," Kol said, "to deliver 35,000 Jew- ish children from the Iron Cur- tain countries to Israel. There are 20,000 in Poland and Rom- ania whose doors are currently open to Jewish emigration. An all-out effort must be made to rescue these children, because if international tension should in- crease or war break out, fate would be black for Jewish youth in these nations where they are considered 'undesirable ele- ments.' " Iron Curtain Problems Terming the situation grim, Kol emphasized that in the past ten months only 1,200 boys and girls from the Iron Curtain countries had succeeded in get- ting to Israel. A problem of equally critical importance for Youth Aliyah, said Kol, "is to bring to Israel the young Jew- ish- generation from the Arab countries." Consul-General Arthur Lourie of Israel warned the Arab states that their refusal to sign final peace treaties with the Jewish state would militate against their best interests. His warn- ing was sounded at the initial session of the convention. He noted that "a year ago Israel was ready to accept the return of 100,000 Arab refugees as part of a comprehensive set- tlement. That offer was not even deemed worthy of an answer and lapsed through Arab refusal to discuss it when it was feasible. Today the proposal of the Israel Government is being overtaken by events. The land of Israel is filling up and terms which it was possible to offer a year ago are not now applicable to changed conditions." Israel in the Middle First Home Is Sold to Korea GI • Eban Reports Israelis' Interest in Korean War NEW YORK, (JTA) — Aubrey E. Eban, Israel's Ambassador to the United States who returned from - Tel- Aviv with his family, said that public opinion in Is- rael is interested in the Korean situation and that "the Israel government's concern has been expressed in two messages in support of the efforts of the Security Council to restore in- ternational peace and security." Israel's attitude, Eban added, is "governed solely by its obli- gations as a member of the UN and is influenced by Israel's own experiences in the past, when Israel was attacked." Declaring that a "major demo-.... cratic adventure of our time is going on. in Israel now — the building of a nation at break- neck speed," Eban noted that "many difficulties of an eco- nomic character cause grave concern, but these are pains of rapid growth and not of illness." Eban is expected to present his credentials to President Tru- man this week. AL LENIN of Edelman Realty Company; MRS. ROGER S. WALDEN, wife of First Lt. Roger S. Walden; and BENJA- MIN LEVINSON, president of Michigan Mortgage Corpora- tion, completing details for a GI mortgage on a home located at 2269 Hazelwood. This is the first V.A. loan that has been - made to a former Cl who has reinlisted and is now fighting in Korea. FOR NEWS OF HOME WHILE AWAY FROM HOME Food, Dollar Deficits Spur Israel Rationing Special Students' Subscription Rabbi Max Kirschblum, acting president of Mizrachi Organiza- tion of America, who recently returned from Israel, in an ex- tended report on the food crisis in Israel, stated that the new rations imposed by the Israeli government stem only from the dire food shortage in that coun- try and is not motivated by any bureaucratic desire for regimen- tation. He emphatically denied that the Israel government uses food and clothing rationing as a means of furthering its sociali- zation program. He pointed to the constant food deficit in Israel which is a direct result of inadequate farm machinery, shortage of farm la- bor, and the need for dollar credits in hard currency coun- tries in order to import food articles. THE JEWISH NEWS 708 David Stott Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich. and American Jewry, whose as- sistance helped Israel to state- hood and is still needed. At the same time, he said, Israel owed a debt of gratitude to Eastern Europe for its support of parti- tion and cannot do anything that would hamper the chances of Eastern European Jewry to go to Israel. Frankly examining the much- discussed issue of world Jewry's relationship to Israel, Mrs. Sam- uel Halprin, Hadassah president, said the Jewish community is divided into the "galuth" — that part which lives in lands where Jews are in danger—and the diaspora, that part which en- joys freedom and equality in Phone WO. 5-1155 before 11 democratic countries. It is in the diaspora that Jews of the a.m. on Wednesdays to place a United States belong, she em- classified ad that will bring re- phasized. When Israel declares suits. that the exiles will be gathered in three years, it is to the Jews of the galuth that Israel refers, Mrs. Halprin said: Ben Gurion Rejects Plan for Separate Orthodox Army Units PETACH TIKVAH, Israel, (JTA) — The suggestion that Ortrodox Jews be formed into seperate units within the Israel Army to enable them to main- tain strict religious observance was rejected by Premier David Ben-Gurion. Addressing the fifth national conference of Poale Agudas Is- rael, a religious labor group, the Premier said that 'his first care was the country's security. He emphasized that in no other army in the world can soldiers maintain ritual observance as freely as in the Israel Army. Wearing a traditional skull- cap,. Premier Ben-Gurion pledg- ed his support for the eradica- tion in Israel of certain tenden- cies deprecating the values of religious teachings. He praised the Agudah labor movement for its cooperation with the government and welcomed the proposed merger between the Agudah laborite group and Ha- poal Mamizrachi, Or thodox Zionist labor group. He predicted consolidation would lead to the incorporation of the united religious labor groups in the Histadrut, Is- rael's Federation of Labor, as a separate orthodox division. The convention concluded with a resolution adopted by about 90 percent of the delegates approv- ing the merger and instructing the new executive of the organi- zation to start negotiations with Turning to Israel's support of the United Nations in Korea, Lourie declared his --country's stand must be viewed against the background of "Israel's posi- tion in relation to the conflict between the two world blocs," which he said "has from the very beginning been exception- al." 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